| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Offences against the person act 1861 | Assault occassioning in actual bodily harm - S47, malicious wounding or GBH - S20, wounding or causing GBH with intent - S18. |
| Assault | an act which causes the victim to be in fear of immediate unlawful force. |
| Intention | direct or oblique intention. |
| Direct intention | the defendants main aim or purpose. |
| Oblique intention | the outcome is virtually certain - Woolin (threw baby at pram). |
| Recklessness | subjective test, the taking or an unjustifiable risk - Cunningham (ripped gas metre off wall). |
| Ireland | silent phone calls can be an assault. |
| Turberville & Savage | words can negate assault - 'asize time'. |
| Smith v cheif constable of south woking | fear can be in the imenent future. |
| Battery | the application of unlawful unwanted force. |
| DDP v K | acid in hot air hand dryer. |
| Assault occassioning ABH S47 | any hurt or injury calculated to interfere with the health or comfort of the victim. |
| Roberts | girl jumps out of a moving car after being scared of advances from driver. |
| Savage & Parmenter | threw beer over woman but cut face with glass. |
| Wound | a cut or break through all layers of the skin - Eisenhower (shot gun pellet in eye) |
| GBH | defined in DDP v Smith as really serious harm |
| Bollom | bruised a 17 month old baby |
| Burstow | being stalked created depression |
| Section 20 | unlawfully and maliciously wound or inflict GBH |
| Section 18 | intentionally unlawfully and maliciously wound or inflict GBH (intention only) |
| Morrison | preventing arrest |
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